The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 27 36 71
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +35
Permanent jobs citing Agile Software Development 78 36 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 6.742% 5.021% 2.916%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.478% 6.883% 3.995%
Number of salaries quoted 56 29 28
Average salary £38,500 £40,052 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.87% +12.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
823 523 776
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 71.13% 72.94% 73.00%
Number of salaries quoted 693 465 702
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent Agile Software Development Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Kent region.

Kent Agile Software Development Salary Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Kent Agile Software Development Salary Histogram

Agile Software Development
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tunbridge Wells +4 6 £45,000 +28.57%
Tonbridge - 5 £45,000 -
Maidstone -7 2 £43,750 +16.66%
Sevenoaks - 1 £70,000 -
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Agile Software Development also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Agile Software Development.

1 59 (41.55%) HTML
2 58 (40.85%) .NET
3 54 (38.03%) ASP.NET
4 52 (36.62%) CSS
4 52 (36.62%) C#
5 50 (35.21%) SQL Server
6 45 (31.69%) SQL
7 41 (28.87%) JavaScript
8 40 (28.17%) Java
9 37 (26.06%) Legal
10 33 (23.24%) MVC
11 32 (22.54%) PHP
11 32 (22.54%) Mobile App
12 30 (21.13%) Finance
12 30 (21.13%) Banking
12 30 (21.13%) Investment Banking
13 29 (20.42%) Ajax
13 29 (20.42%) WCF
13 29 (20.42%) MySQL
13 29 (20.42%) OO
14 26 (18.31%) E-Commerce
15 25 (17.61%) SQL Server 2008
16 24 (16.90%) Android
16 24 (16.90%) jQuery
16 24 (16.90%) Unit Testing
16 24 (16.90%) Team Foundation Server
16 24 (16.90%) SharePoint
17 23 (16.20%) ASP.NET MVC
18 22 (15.49%) Apple iOS
19 20 (14.08%) Microsoft

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Agile Software Development also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Agile Software Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (41.55%) HTML
2 58 (40.85%) .NET
3 54 (38.03%) ASP.NET
4 52 (36.62%) CSS
5 29 (20.42%) Ajax
5 29 (20.42%) WCF
6 24 (16.90%) jQuery
7 23 (16.20%) ASP.NET MVC
8 18 (12.68%) Hibernate
9 17 (11.97%) XHTML
9 17 (11.97%) Web Services
10 16 (11.27%) HTML5
10 16 (11.27%) Node.js
11 14 (9.859%) REST
12 13 (9.155%) SOAP
13 12 (8.451%) WF
13 12 (8.451%) RSS
14 11 (7.746%) J2EE
14 11 (7.746%) Spring
14 11 (7.746%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 24 (16.90%) SharePoint
2 19 (13.38%) Apache
3 17 (11.97%) IIS
4 15 (10.56%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (2.817%) CMS
5 4 (2.817%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.113%) MTS
6 3 (2.113%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.704%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.704%) Drupal
7 1 (0.704%) nginx
7 1 (0.704%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.704%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.704%) MS Project
1 1 (0.704%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.225%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.817%) Internet
1 4 (2.817%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.704%) HTTP
2 1 (0.704%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (35.21%) SQL Server
2 29 (20.42%) MySQL
3 25 (17.61%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (8.451%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.521%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (2.817%) JasperReports
7 3 (2.113%) OLAP
8 2 (1.408%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.408%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.704%) MS Access
9 1 (0.704%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.704%) DB2
9 1 (0.704%) OLTP
9 1 (0.704%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.704%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (0.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.704%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.704%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (16.90%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (7.746%) Subversion
3 9 (6.338%) QuickTest Pro
4 8 (5.634%) JIRA
5 7 (4.930%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.521%) Git (software)
7 4 (2.817%) DbUnit
7 4 (2.817%) MSTest
7 4 (2.817%) EasyMock
7 4 (2.817%) Rhino Mocks
7 4 (2.817%) Moq
7 4 (2.817%) Mockito
7 4 (2.817%) NUnit
7 4 (2.817%) CruiseControl
8 3 (2.113%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.113%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.408%) Build Forge
9 2 (1.408%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.408%) ClearCase
10 1 (0.704%) Ant
General
1 37 (26.06%) Legal
2 30 (21.13%) Finance
2 30 (21.13%) Banking
2 30 (21.13%) Investment Banking
3 14 (9.859%) Retail
4 7 (4.930%) Law
5 5 (3.521%) Marketing
6 4 (2.817%) Music
6 4 (2.817%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.817%) Publishing
7 3 (2.113%) Advertising
7 3 (2.113%) Games
Job Titles
1 92 (64.79%) Developer
2 34 (23.94%) .NET Developer
3 23 (16.20%) ASP.NET Developer
3 23 (16.20%) Web Developer
4 16 (11.27%) C# Developer
5 14 (9.859%) Java Developer
5 14 (9.859%) Architect
5 14 (9.859%) Analyst
6 13 (9.155%) C# .NET Developer
6 13 (9.155%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 11 (7.746%) Applications Architect
7 11 (7.746%) PHP Developer
7 11 (7.746%) Designer
8 9 (6.338%) Front-End Developer
9 8 (5.634%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.634%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.930%) Scala Developer
10 7 (4.930%) Mobile Developer
11 6 (4.225%) Agile C# Developer
11 6 (4.225%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (22.54%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.634%) Open Source
3 6 (4.225%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.521%) Blackberry
4 5 (3.521%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (2.113%) Equities
5 3 (2.113%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.113%) Social Media
5 3 (2.113%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.113%) Social Gaming
5 3 (2.113%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.408%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.90%) Android
2 22 (15.49%) Apple iOS
3 20 (14.08%) UNIX
4 14 (9.859%) Windows
5 9 (6.338%) Linux
6 5 (3.521%) Windows Phone
6 5 (3.521%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.24%) MVC
2 29 (20.42%) OO
3 26 (18.31%) E-Commerce
4 24 (16.90%) Unit Testing
5 17 (11.97%) Web Development
6 16 (11.27%) Mobile Application Development
7 15 (10.56%) SOA
7 15 (10.56%) TDD
8 13 (9.155%) OOP
8 13 (9.155%) Data Management
8 13 (9.155%) Multithreading
9 12 (8.451%) Automated Testing
9 12 (8.451%) Scrum
10 10 (7.042%) UML
11 9 (6.338%) Data Modelling
11 9 (6.338%) System Testing
12 8 (5.634%) Kanban
12 8 (5.634%) Business Analysis
13 7 (4.930%) BDD
13 7 (4.930%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (36.62%) C#
2 45 (31.69%) SQL
3 41 (28.87%) JavaScript
4 40 (28.17%) Java
5 32 (22.54%) PHP
6 9 (6.338%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.930%) Scala
8 6 (4.225%) Objective-C
9 5 (3.521%) VB
9 5 (3.521%) VB.NET
9 5 (3.521%) C
10 4 (2.817%) Ruby
11 3 (2.113%) C++
12 2 (1.408%) Perl
13 1 (0.704%) Python
13 1 (0.704%) VB6
13 1 (0.704%) XPath
13 1 (0.704%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.704%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 7 (4.930%) Degree
2 4 (2.817%) MCTS
2 4 (2.817%) Sun Certification
2 4 (2.817%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (2.817%) MCP
2 4 (2.817%) MCAD
2 4 (2.817%) MCSD
3 3 (2.113%) PhD
3 3 (2.113%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.155%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (6.338%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.859%) Oracle
3 11 (7.746%) Facebook
4 7 (4.930%) Apple
5 6 (4.225%) Pega
5 6 (4.225%) Lombardi
5 6 (4.225%) Metastorm
5 6 (4.225%) Adobe
6 5 (3.521%) Sybase
7 4 (2.817%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.817%) JBoss
8 3 (2.113%) Salesforce.com
8 3 (2.113%) Twitter
9 1 (0.704%) Informatica
9 1 (0.704%) IBM
9 1 (0.704%) Google
9 1 (0.704%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.704%) Sencha
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